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How to keep Chickens in your Back Garden
Chicken keeping has become a popular hobby; many people are concerned about current production methods, what they eat and trying to reduce their weekly shopping bill. They can be easy and cheap to keep, fun and educational; they provide fresh eggs and can make great pets.
This professional chicken keeping course is tailored for the new and existing back garden keeper, promoting good chicken keeping skills to ensure you get the most from your flock, with hands-on advice and practical tips. Meeting like-minded people, the course will help you get up and running: basedon your expectations of chicken keeping, assist selecting the right breed to suit you, look at important features to identify the right coop and explain how to keep your hens healthy and laying.
Day 1
- Introduction
- Why we are here and at what stage are we, i.e. have chickens, just thought about keeping chickens etc
- An Overview of Keeping Chickens and The Benefits and Rewards of keeping Chickens
- The Cost of Keeping Chickens
- A Chickens Needs - group discussion, use whiteboard, summarise PowerPoint
- Chickens Every Day, Weekly & Monthly Care
Day 2
- Recap
- Overview of Breeds, Different Behaviours, Characters & Physical Features of Chickens
- Choosing The Right Breed to Suit You, Helping Students Focus on Their Expectations of Keeping Chickens
- Discuss & review homework Exercise 'Choose The Right Breed to Suit You'
- Use Internet to show students how to match their expectations to a given breed
- Discuss housing requirements and review houses available discuss advantages & disadvantages of each one
Day 3
- Recap
- Discuss Students Expectations / Requirements of Chicken Keeping and their Selected Breeds
- Their food & water requirements, main diet, treats
- Health Supplements & Medication
- Health - External & Internal Parasites Identification & Eradication
- Dust Baths - their purpose, contents & benefits
- Identify Signs of Ill Health
Day 4
- Recap
- Training a Chicken
- How to Settle Your Flock into Their New Home
- Your First Eggs, When, How Many, For How Long & Storing
- The Moult, What is it, When it Happens, How Long for & How to Help
- A Broody Hen, Signs, Problems & What to Do
- Predators
- Definition of Chickens Ages
- Wing Clipping How to Stop a Chicken Flying Off
Day 5
- Recap
- How to Handle a Chicken
- Options of Dispatching
- Getting Stuck In, Outside to see the Hens,
- Handling a Live Chicken
- Questions & Answers
